Night bicycle reflective / lights visibility, run #2

Finally got my wife to cooperate and video me with all my lights and reflecto-gear.

The test vehicle is our '96 Chrysler minivan, which has just about the weakest headlights of any vehicle you're likely to see on the road these days.

The street is a quiet suburban, one streetlight where the camera is and another maybe 150 meters down the way. You can also see a couple of consctruction barricades blinking away; they're about halfway between the camera and the far streetlight.

For this run, I'm wearing a nice day-glo yellow jacket, but I also have a HarborFreight reflective vest
http://secure2.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/Displayitem.taf?itemnumber=96569

I bought 2 of the vests. One of them I wear normally. The other, I attacked with scissors and made 2 separate leg reflectors. The bottom wraps around my ankle like a typical leg strap, and the vertical strap portion runs up the back of my calf. You can see it on my left leg in the video. I had to staple some velcro in various places to make it work, and I used a velcro strap around the top of my calf, stapled to the vest stripe, to hold it up.

For the rear blinky, it's a:
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.8278

For the front light, you can barely see the Cateye I have on my helmet - it's an older 3 LED model.

But I'm hand-holding one of these, and that's what I flash the camera with and makes the wife snort.
Dealextreme SKU 13442, People's Cree Q2 150-Lumen LED Flashlight with Holster (3*AAA)
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.13442

So, I'm satisfied this is decent visibility. Maybe another rear blinky.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• MVI
• 0535

[stopglobalswarming]

I like night riding but it really sucks when drunk people freak out thinking you are a space alien.

[Porgot138]

you're invisible. Maybe another rear blinky. Maybe another front light blinky.